Over recent decades, a variety of advanced imaging techniques for assessing
cardiovascular physiology and cardiac function in adults and children have been applied in …

Diastolic dysfunction has correlated with adverse outcomes in various forms of unrepaired
and repaired or palliated congenital heart disease (CHD). The non-invasive assessment of …

Acute rheumatic fever and its chronic sequela, rheumatic heart disease (RHD), pose major
health problems globally, and remain the most common cardiovascular disease in children …

The size and function of the left atrium (LA) and right atrium (RA) are related closely with the
prognosis of cardiovascular diseases. However, their normal reference values, as measured …

Background Myocardial deformation is a sensitive marker for sub-clinical myocardial
dysfunction and carries independent prognostic significance across a broad range of …

Introduction The right atrium (RA) roles include being a systolic reservoir, an early diastolic
conduit, and a late‐diastolic booster pump. The present study aimed to assess normal …

Right ventricular myocardial infarction (RVMI) damages the systolic and diastolic functions of
the RV, so the right atrium interacts with the RV with an acutely altered function. The aim of …

Purpose The aim of the present investigation is to study the relationship of ventricular global
longitudinal strain (GLS) and ultrasound lung comets (ULC) formation to establish a link …

In patients with heart failure and preserved or mildly reduced ejection fractions (EF≥ 40%),
implantation of an interatrial shunt device (IASD) resulted in heterogenous changes of the …

Myocardial deformation by speckle tracking echocardiography is a novel method for
evaluating cardiac function. To test the hypothesis that right ventricular and left ventricular …